A documentary about Chinese geography and culture that has been two years in the making will be premiered to coincide with President Xi Jinping's state visit to the United States. China From Above, a 100-minute film covering geographic ...
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Dayang Ancient Town, which has a history of more than 2,000 years, was well-known for its needle-making industry during the Ming and Qing dynasties (1368-1911). With the decline of handmade needle industry, the prosperity of the ancient ...
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The discovery of 47 human teeth in a cave in Hunan province by Chinese scientists has unearthed new evidence that the earliest modern humans lived in East Asia. The teeth and a number of animal fossils were excavated from Fuyan Cave in ...
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Minister Gao Hucheng met with U.S. presidential trade delegation of “wisdom city--wisdom growth” headed by U.S. Secretary of Commerce Penny Pritzker and Deputy Secretary of Energy Elizabeth Sherwood-Randall sent by the Obama ...
Tags: China-U.S.trade and economic cooperation, energy industry
DuPont Displays (DuPont) announced the opening of a state-of-the-art, scale-up manufacturing facility designed to deliver production scale quantities of advanced materials that enable large-format, solution-based printed Organic Light ...
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Cadmium telluride (CdTe) thin-film photovoltaic (PV) module maker First Solar Inc of Tempe, AZ, USA, international mining group Rio Tinto and the Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) have announced that Australia's first commercial ...
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Major regional markets (i.e. China, the U.S. and Japan) and other emerging markets continue to drive the demand growth of this year’s photovoltaic (PV) market. The latest report by EnergyTrend, a division of TrendForce, says that the ...
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Chinese demand for seaborne-traded thermal coal will fall sharply from 2016, dragging prices down in its wake, analysts at Goldman Sachs said this week. In a report entitled The Tiger and the Dragon, the bank's analysts downgraded their ...
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BioPak, a leading provider of sustainable plant-based packaging and one of Rainforest Rescue’s longest serving business partners, has announced a strong commitment to protect the habitat of threatened, endangered, precious and rare ...
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AkzoNobel has signed a multi-year agreement to purchase sustainably generated steam from Dutch energy provider Eneco. The partnership will help to reduce the company’s CO2 emissions by more than 100,000 tons a year. The agreement ...
Renewable energy statistics, viewed in isolation, sketch a misleading picture of wind and solar energy growth in China. According to the Energy Information Agency, China's total installed wind and solar electricity capacity was 7% in ...
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Swedish automobile major Scania has taken its bus to Central Institute of Road Transport (CIRT) in India for homologation test as the last lap towards the pilot launch of the first-ever ethanol-run buses in Nagpur, Maharashtra. The ...
Vogue International, which owns OGX hair care products, has selected Avery Dennison's Global MDO film labels to cut down environmental fallouts of pressure-sensitive labels. With the adoption of the Global MDO film labels, the hair care ...
Heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) looking to use compressed natural gas (CNG), the cleanest, cheapest fuel for trucks and buses, will be able to fill up close to junction 28 on the M6 in Lancashire as CNG Fuels has secured planning permission for ...
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PlantBottle packaging "pushes the boundaries on sustainable innovation by using groundbreaking technology to create a fully recyclable plastic bottle made from renewable plant materials," said the soft drinks giant. The current version of ...
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